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| A favorite introductory text for a decade, this revised edition retains the clarity and accessibility of the original. Drane's discerning scholarship---combined with photographs, maps, timelines, and diagrams---makes a valuable tool for grasping the New Testament's details, themes, and scope. Featuring a full account of recent scholarly developments, it also includes a new chapter on hermeneutics. |
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| As the first volume of the Encountering Mission series, this book provides a broad overview of world missions. The book is divided into five major sections. The first two provide the biblical and theological basis for missions as well as a historical survey. The following three sections consider the practical issues and contemporary challenges involved in mission work. The authors incorporate a number of features that add focus and insight to their broader survey. Chapters close with a case study to focus on important issues and concerns. There are also numerous sidebars, maps, and charts throughout the text that provide further details on particular subjects and raise questions for discussion. A teacher's manual (available on CD-ROM) includes additional case studies, historical documents, and PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation. As a bonus, a free CD-ROM containing the Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions is included in the back of each book. This comprehensive reference work contains over 1,400 articles on the theory, practice, theology, and history of mission.A. Scott Moreau is professor of missions and intercultural studies at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the general editor of the Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions. |
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| The 150 psalms found in God’s Word encompass the gamut of human experience—joy and pain, sin and forgiveness, despair and praise. And while they were written thousands of years ago, psalms still deeply resonate with us today. With their unique acoustic, multi-ethnic sound, Sons of Korah create an intriguing re-creation of the musical drama of the psalms, blending the Word of God and music together in a dynamic and captivating way. Sons of Korah Interveiw Want to know how the band came up with their name? Do you wonder what drew the band to the Psalms? Curious how the Psalms speak to us today? Read all that and more in the Sons of Korah interview! |
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| McQuilkin encourages Christians and nonChristians alike to avoid the trap of seeing the Bible as dry history or "nice words." God's Word should be the driving force behind morality. |
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| Bernard Ramm's Protestant Biblical Hermeneutics, published in 1956, attracted a broad spectrum of Bible readers and set the tone of biblical interpretation for a whole generation of evangelical students. An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics could have a similar role for this generation at the end of the twentieth century. Almost every assumption that Ramm made has been challenged and tested by the winds of modernity and post-modernity. The severity of the changes from earlier patterns of thinking is reflected in the subtitle to this book, The Search for Meaning. This book is distinctive from others on hermeneutics in that the authors, rather than writing from a single viewpoint, hold differing opinions on many issues. There are more areas where they agree than disagree, including the authority of Scripture and the primacy of authorial meaning; but where they disagree is precisely where the issues are most crucial for the future. So the readers are invited , in effect, to eavesdrop on a vibrant dialogue between two scholars and to reach their own conclusions. Despite the convivial tone, the readers must not mistake how great the stakes are. In a culture that prizes individuality and personal freedom, the primary question is no longer "Is it true?" but rather "Does it matter?" hence the question of relevancy has taken precedence over the questions "What does the text mean?" This book therefore confronts the question of meaning and shows how evangelicals may still clearly hear the Word from God amid the cacophony of the age. |
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| The authors of this book have combined years of expertise and devotion to Scripture to provide a truly unique volume that sets forth concise, logical, practical guidelines for discovering the truth in God's Word. Ten years after its initial publication, the authors now have thoroughly updated it in light of the latest scholarship. "This is a remarkably comprehensive study of the whole area of biblical interpretation. Thoroughly evangelical, it also interacts with nonevangelical interpretational stances. |
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| A study guide with summaries and questions to accompany the book Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching |
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| This exhaustive textbook is now in its second edition. It covers everything a beginning writer needs to know about getting published and serves as a solid reminder for the professional who needs an occasional bit of advice. |
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| Revised Edition One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth 20 page preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events have occurred in the world, and in the Church. But even so, he says he is firmly convinced that his fundamental approach in this book is still very timely and crucial for the spiritual needs of modern man. That approach puts the question of God and the question about Christ in the very center, which leads to a "narrative Christology" and demonstrates that the place for faith is in the Church. ' Thus, this remarkable elucidation of the Apostle's Creed gives an excellent, modern interpretation of the foundations of Christianity. Ratzinger's profound treatment of Christianity's basic truths combines a spiritual outlook with a deep knowledge of Scripture and the history of theology.' Joseph Ratzinger , now Pope Benedict XVI, was for over two decades The Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope John Paul II. He is the author of Spirit of the Liturgy, Salt of the Earth, Introduction to Christianity, God and the World, Milestones, Called to Communion, God Is Near Us , and many other works published by Ignatius Press. '' Learn more about Pope Benedict! Visit the Works of Benedict ''XVI ' |
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| Word...grammar...syntax...context--all of these elements form the basis for hermeneutics, the principles and practice of interpreting works of literature..Pieces of the interpretive puzzle take on unique significance, however, when the message under consideration is the revelation of God. How does a student of the Bible apply principles of interpretation with the skill and diligence of "a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15 NASB)?An Introduction To Classical Evangelical Hermeneutics offers a set of tools and guidelines for accurate interpretation and understanding of the Scriptures. Christians throughout history have been most "workmanlike" when using grammatical-historical principles, which take the words of the text to mean what language principles tell us they mean. The contributors to this work hold that grammatical-historical interpretation is most carefully followed when the interpreter is informed by premillennial, dispensational theology.Topics covered include: *A history of interpretation and the various hermeneutical traditions in Christian history *An examination of dispensational hermeneutics in the early church *The importance of the doctrine of inerrance in Bible interpretation *Understanding symbols and types in biblical prophecy |
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| This book builds a big-picture view of the Old Testament by concentrating on its great unifying themes. -- |
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| Cornelius Van Til's Introduction to Systematic Theology is one of his two or three most important books, certainly a must-read for anyone who is trying to understand Van Til. And it is important for Christians to understand Van Til today, as never before. He challenges Christians to think in a distinctively biblical way. That biblical way opposes and challenges all religions and secular philosophies, all ideologies that place the ultimate source of truth and value in human beings rather than in God. As with the recently republished Christian Apologetics, P&R has thoroughly re-edited Van Til's "syllabus," with an excellent introduction by William Edgar. |
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